Introduction

The last four decades or so testify to a remarkable development in the academic climate of analytic philosophy. Stephen T. Davis witnessed this development from his college time in the late sixties and seventies onward. He writes: “in those days, we students were scarcely allowed even to mention words like ‘God’ or ‘theology’, and claims like ‘God raised Jesus from the dead’ were dismissed with disdain, scorn and knowing looks.”1 Nowadays, instead, many philosophers, believers and non-believers alike, explicitly dedicate their work to religious topics. Philosophy of religion has become a respectable discipline within analytic philosophy.